Fall 2013

Features

Day of the Dead Having survived her share of video corpses, Angela Kang ’98 finds her footing as a staff writer on TV’s hottest series, AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”

Maurissa Explains It All From singing in a Motown girl group to writing banter for Britney Spears, Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon ’97 knows the fringes of the pop-culture circuit. With TV’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” she’s at the center of the Marvel universe.

Good Job HuntingThe search for the right profession can take students down many paths. Oxy’s Career Development Center is making that task a little easier by expanding its offerings as it prepares to enlarge its campus footprint.

From Here to Infinity Richard Andrews ’71 connects visionary artists such as James Turrell—a Pomona graduate—with the means to make transformative art a reality.

One-Hit Wonder When the 1963 Oxy baseball team took the field against intercity rival USC, a casual fan would have predicted a Trojan blowout. But Coach Grant Dunlap ’46 had a not-so-secret weapon on the mound—and a spring ­classic would follow, as first baseman Doug Beacham ’64 remembers.

Oxy’s Elite Eight A closer look at the College’s second flight of inductees in the Occidental Athletics Hall of Fame.

Departments

From Jonathan Veitch President Veitch discusses Oxy’s newly renovated spaces, and the day-to-day work of the liberal arts.

Letters Readers’ notes on Beatrix Farrand, History of Civilization, and the legacy of The Bucket.